Hay rake and stacker.



H. A. G OERING 11 s. P. KREHBIEL. HAY RAKE AND STACKER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 3| I912.

1,146,244. Patented July 13, 1915.

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H. A. GOERING & S. P. KREHBIEL.

HAY RAKE AND STACKER.

APPLlCATiON man 00113. 1912.

1,146,244. Patented July 13, 1915.

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H. A. GOERING & S. P. KREHBIEL.

HAY RAKE AND STACKER. APPLICATIONHLED MT. 3. 1912.

Patented July 13, 1915.

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HENRY A. GOERING AND SOLOMON P. KREHIBIEL, OF MOU'NDRIDGE, KANSAS.

HAY RAKE AND STACKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July is, rare.

Application filed October 3, 1912. Serial No. 723,742.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY A. Gonn- ING and SOLOMON P. KREHBIEL,citizens of the United States, residing at Moundridge, in the county ofMcPherson and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Hay Rakes and Stackers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hay rakes and stackers, and has for itsprincipal Object to simplify the construction of such devices and toprovide a structure capable of such adjustments as to enable the moreready handling of this machine, both in operation and in conveying themachine from place to place, than machines heretofore devised andconstructed.

Another object of this invention is to peculiarly group the elements ofa machine of this character to produce a device which is relativelynarrow whereby the machine may be conveniently conveyed through gatesand like narrow passages and may be easily housed when not in use, themachine having in addition to these advantages all the advantages. ofother machines in capacity and strength. i v

The invention also designs to provide a machine with an upright frame orderrick which is adjustable and which may be folded down to aconsiderable extent to admit the passage of the machine beneathrelatively low obstructions, such as gate cross pieces, telephone andlike wires, roofs of barns, and the like.

The invention, in general, designs to pro vide a machine capable of suchadjustments as to enable the handling of the machine under practicallyall conditions, a feature which has been found lacking in prior devices.

This invention has for a further object to produce a-machine having aframe of simple construction which is light in weight,

strong, durable, and which will admit of the positioning of the draftanimals close together and directly in front of the driver so that theymay be easily controlled, and a frame which may be guided in itsmovements by the operator from the seat, thus placing the frame underthe direct control of the driver, and not, as has been heretofore done,under the indirect control of the driver by guiding the draft animals.

A still further object of this invention is to combine with therake-raising and releasing mechanism a tension and brake device whichwill hold the rake in raised position while releasing the rake from thedriving mechanism, and which will lower the rake at any speed desired,all of such mechanism and devices being controllable by the driver fromthe seat.

Other objects and advantages of. this invention will be apparent fromthe following specification disclosing in detail the present embodimentof this invention, and in the accompanying drawing illustrating suchembodiment.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side eleva-tionv of the improved machineadjusted for conveying from place to place. Fig. 2 is a top plan view ofthe same, parts thereof being broken away. Fig. 3 is a longitudinalsectional view of the machine taken on the line 33of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is adetail enlarged view of the derrick brace. 1

Referring to the drawings, in which like parts are designated by similarreference characters throughout the several views, it will first benoted that the machine in general, is made up of a mainframe orcarriage, a derrick on the carriage, a brace for the derrick and anadjustable rake mounted on the derrick. I v

The frame of the machine is preferably of T-form and comprises a pushbeam 10 of tubular construction secured at its forward end by a casting1 1 to a tubular axle casing 12. The rear end of the push beam 10carries a bearing 13 in which is vertically mounted a forked crank arm14 depending from the bearing 13 and carrying in its lower end asupporting wheel 15. The crank arm 14 extends up. through the bearing 13and is provided upon its upper end the crank arm 14. Inthe tubular axlecasing 12 is mounted a front axle 17 upon the ends of which are fixedwheels 18 supporting the forward end of the frame. The push beam 10 isreinforced by a pair of diagonal braces 19 extending fromthe ends of thetubular casing 12 back and inward to the push beam, and are secured to acommon point upon the push beam slightly rearward of the casting 11. Ajack shaft 20 is journaled in the frame and is connected to the frontaxle 17 by intermeshing gears 21 and 22 respectively mounted upon theaxle and the jack shaft. The'gear 22 is loose upon the jack shaft andcooperates with a clutch sleeve 23 fixed upon the jack shaft outwardlyof the gear to effect a turning of the jack shaft 20 when the clutch 23is moved into engagement with the teeth of the gear 22. The gear 22 hassuitable connection with one end of a connecting rod 24, the latterextending inwardly to the push beam 10 where it is hinged at theopposite end to one arm of a bell-crank lever 25 pivoted upon the pushbeam 10. The opposite arm of the bell-crank lever 25 has hingedconnection with a second rod 26 extending longitudinally of the pushbeam toward the rear end thereof where the rod 26 has hinged connectionwith an operating and locking lever 27 pivoted upon a supporting bar 28.The supporting bar 28 may be of any adaptable form, but is disclosed inthe present instance as being substantially arcuate in form and havingone end supported upon the push beam 10 and its opposite end secured toplatform 29 mounted upon the bearing 13. The lever 27 is hinged to andat a point intermediate the ends of the bar 28 and slightly above theplane of the platform 29. The lever 27 is hinged to the rod 26 adjacentits fulcrum and is adapted to extend down and back and rest upon theplatform 29 to lock the rod 26 from forward movement. When in thisposition, disclosed in Fig. 2, the lever 27 holds the clutch sleeve 23in released position and prevents the ac cidental engagement of thesleeve 23 with the lateral teeth of the gear 22.

The jack shaft 20 is provided with a brake drum 30, disclosed as locatedmidway be tween the ends of the jack shaft and at one side of the pushbeam 10. This drum is provided with a brake band 31 having one endsecured to a cross-piece 32 carried upon the forward end of the pushbeam 10 and projecting laterally therefrom, the opposite end of thebrake band 31 being secured in the upper end of a lever 33 hinged at itslower end upon the cross-piece 32. A twopiece connecting rod 34 issecured at one end to the upper extremity of the lever 33 and has itsopposite end hinged upon a hand lever 35 pivoted upon one side of thepush beam 10 concentric to a segment 36. The hand lever 35 carries athumb latch 37 connected in the usual way to a dog 38 engaging thesegment 36 and adapted to lock the hand lever in the desired adjustedposition. The portions of the rod 34 are suitably connected together bymeans of a spring 39 efiecting a yielding engagement of the brake band31 upon the drum 30. The jack shaft 20 carries near its opposite ends apair of drums 40 adapted to be rotated by the jack shaft and havingWound thereon cables or ropes 41 for raising and lowering the rakehereinafter set forth.

The derrick which is mounted upon the frame or carriage comprises a pairof posts 42 hinged at their lower ends against the tubular casing 12 bystraps 43 passing around the tubular casing 12 and secured to the lowerends of the posts 42 by bolts, or the like. The posts 42 extend upwardin parallelism and are held apart by cross pieces 44, the uppermost oneof which carries adjacent the posts 42 sheaves 45 over which the ropesor cables 41 are passed. The derrick is reinforced by a plurality oftrans verse or diagonal braces 46 comprising, preferably, wiressuiiiciently strong to brace the derrick. This derrick is adapted toswing forward and rearward, and is supported in the desired position bya brace. This brace comprises a pair of bars 47 hinged at their upperends upon the uppermost cross-piece 44 of the derrick the lower ends ofthe bars converging and being secured to a sleeve 48. The bars 47 arereinforced by a transverse rod 49 located intermediate the ends of therods 47 and being provided with a second sleeve 50 in longitudinalalinement with the sleeve 48. A connecting bar 51 is slidably mounted inthe sleeves 48 and 50 and is provided with a number of transverseopenings 52 registering one at a time with a transverse opening in thesleeve 48 through which passes a key or pin 53 employed for locking theconnecting bar 51 in the sleeves when properly adjusted. The push beam10 is provided near its rear end, immediately for- Ward of the platform29, with a guiding bar 54 upon which is slidably mounted a block havinghinged connection with the lower end of the connecting bar 51. Theguiding bar 54 is pivoted upon the push beam 10, and the block 55 isguided in its up and down movements by a radius rod 56 hinged upon theblock 55 at one end and at its opposite end upon the push beam 10 at apoint forward of the guiding bar 54. A latch 57 is carried upon theblock and adapted for locking the block upon the bar 54 when raised tothe desired height. The latch 57 has a finger-engaging portionprojecting rearwardly adjacent to the handle 58 for raising and loweringthe block. Mounted upon the block 55 is a handle 59 to which is attacheda cord 60 extending forwardly to a bell crank 60 hinged upon the pushbeam 10 concentric with the radius rod 56 and having attachment with onearm of the bell crank. Another section of cord 60 connects the oppositearm of the bell crank with the weighted lower end of a latch 61 pivotedagainst the side of the push beam 10 in the path of a ratchet wheel 62fixed upon the jack shaft 20. The latch 61 automatically engages theteeth of the ratchet 62 and. locks the ack shaft 20 from rotating in areverse direction after the cables have been wound upon the drums.

The rake employed in connection with this machine comprises threecross-heads 63, 64 and 65 arranged in triangularrelation. The uppercross-head 63 and the inner crosshead 64 are held in superposed spacedrelation by supports 66arranged vertically between the cross-heads, thecross-heads63 and 65 being connected together by truss braces 67. Thetruss braces 67 extend downwardly diagonally from .the upper crosshead63 to the lower forward cross-head65, and support a plurality of raketeeth 68 extending forward from the lower crossheads 64 and 65. Groovedpulleys 69 are mounted upon the rake at the opposite ends of thecross-head 64 and rest against and move over the outer faces of theposts 42, which are preferably circular in cross-section. A second pairof grooved pulleys 70 are mounted in arms 71 extending rearwardly aboutthe sides of the posts 42, the pulleys 70 engaging the rear faces of theposts 42 and holding the rake from tilting forward and downward. A pairof fingers 7 2 are carried upon the ends of the rake and extend backwardabout the sides of the posts 42 and are curved laterally to engage therear faces of the posts and hold the rake from tilting upward. Thecables or ropes 41 which pass over the sheaves 45 are brought down andsecured to the rake.

In operation the draft animals are attached to the frame at the oppositesides of the push beam 10 and immediately in front of the platform 29.When the machine is being conveyed from place to place, the block 55 ismoved into its lowermost position upon the guiding bar 54. The key orpin 53 is withdrawn from the sleeve 48 and the upper portion of thederrick brace is moved down upon the connecting bar 51 into the positionshown in Fig. 1. It will be noted that this double adjustment of thederrick brace throws the derrick backward into a relatively low positionso that the machine may pass under relatively lower obstructions. As themachine is pushed along by the draft animals the operator guides themachine directly by turning the crank arm 14.

hen it is desired to pick up a quantity of hay, the derrick is raisedinto the position disclosed in Fig. 3, the latch 61 is released from theratchet 62 and the jack shaft 20 is released and caused to turn in areverse direction by the weight of the rake supported upon the ropes 41.The operator, however, controls the descent of the rake with the lever35 with which the operator contracts the brake band 31 upon the drum 30and prevents the overrunning of the shaft 20. The machine is now movedforwardly with the rake in its lowermost position and with the teethprojecting forwardly near the ground. The hay is now taken up by therake, the operator adjusts the block 55 to slant the derrick backwardslightly to retain the load upon the rake, and throws the lever 27forwardly whereupon the gear 22 is moved into engagement with the clutchsleeve .23 and the shaft 20 is thereby coupled-t0 the axle 17 Theforward movement of the frame now rotates the jack shaft and winds theropes 41 upon the drums 40. The winding of the-ropes 41 raises the rakeinto the position disclosed in Fig. 3. The machine is now carried to thestack and the load upon the rake is dropped upon the top of the stack bylowering the rake and backing the. machine away from the stack.

It will be noted from Fig. 2 of the drawings that the rake is soconstructed as to extend laterally beyond the wheels of the carriage orframe. To this end, the lower cross-head 64 is shorter than thecross-heads 63and 65 to provide an uninterrupted passage for the wheelat each end of the rake between the inner ends of the teeth 68 locatedat the opposite sides of the rake. The endmost braces 66 are arrangedfor movement in a plane outwardly of the plane of the wheels so thatwhen the rake is in low ered position its outermost braces 66 overlapthe wheels and form continuations of the rake beyond the wheels. In thismanner, the rake is of a construction which is relatively wide so thatthe entire width of the machine may be taken up by the rake and thesupporting wheels and other mechanism are disposed inwardly of the endsof the rake. With this construction, a rake of ordinary size may be usedwhile the mechanism which supports and operates the rake is of lesswidth than the rake, thereby admitting of the passage of the entiremachine through practically any space through which the rake may pass.

The posts 42 extend down in front of the housing 12 to a point near theground so as to admit of the lowering of the rake into close proximityto the ground. The posts 42 are provided with a pair of rests 42"fprojecting forwardly from their lower ends upon which the rake restswhen lowered, and which serve as stops to prevent the dropping of therake from the derrick.

It will, of course be understood that various structural, and otherminor changes may be made in the details of this embodiment of theinvention, provided that such changes be within the scope of thefollowing claim. By the provision of the radius rod '56 and the adjacentparts the frame may be tilted forwardly a sufficient extent to dump theload upon the fork without lowering the fork. The machine may passthrough any gate which is of sufficient width to allow the running frameand wheels of the device to pass through, since if the gate is toonarrow to let the fork pass through, the fork may be raised to clear thetop of the gate when the running frame may pass through withouthindrance.

What we claim is:

In a device as specified; the combination with a frame; a derrick on theframe; a rake on the derrick; means for hoisting the rake 0n thederrick; and derrick tilting means on the frame; of asupport between thederrick and the tilting mechanism, and comprising a pair of relativelyadjustable sections secured respectively to the derrick and saidmechanism; the section of said support secured to said derrickcomprising a pair of arms hinged upon the upper end of the derrick andconverging downwardly, a sleeve joining the lower ends of said arms, atransverse rod secured across the arms intermediate their ends, and asecond sleeve mounted on said transverse rod in longitudinal alinementwith said first sleeve; the other of said sections comprising a rodslidably engaging through said sleeve; means for securing said membersin any one of a number 0t predetermined extended positions whereby tosupport the derrick in an upright Working position; and means forsupporting said section in collapsed position whereby to. hold thederrick in lowered inoperative position.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HENRY A. GOERING. SOLMON P. KREHBIEL. Witnesses:

HENRY J. Vn'rrnn, DAVID J. GoERING.

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